Article by David Limbaugh copied from Townhall.com:So, What if the Bible is Really True?

I'd like to challenge you to consider that the "good news" we celebrate during the Christmas season really is true.

You
may choose to believe the Bible is merely a book of fables with nice
moral lessons, but there is more abundant and accurate manuscript
evidence for the New Testament than any other book from antiquity.
Moreover, the number of witnesses to Christ's life, death and
resurrection, as well as the nature of their testimony, is strong
evidence of the reliability of the scriptural accounts, as are the
corroborating secular testimony and archeological evidence.

In
fact, the New Testament writers had every temporal motive to deny the
resurrection occurred. Why would they fabricate and stand by a story
that would lead to their being beaten, tortured and murdered?

So
next time you read your Bible, consider that you're reading the
inspired word of God and that Jesus really did say and do what the
Bible reports, beginning with His claims about His own divinity:

He
said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through Me. If you know Me, you will also know My Father.
... The one who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:6-8). He also
said, "I tell you the truth, before Abraham was born, I am" (John
8:58). Here, Jesus claimed not only to have pre-existed Abraham but
also that His pre-existence was eternal, as would have been the case
had He said, "I was." More significantly, "I AM" was a name for God. He
further identified himself as the God of the Old Testament, when
proclaiming, "I am the light of the world" (Psalm 27:1 says, "The Lord
is my light and my salvation") and "I am the good shepherd." (Psalm
23:1 says, "The Lord is my shepherd.") When responding to the high
priest as to His deity, Jesus said, "I am and you will see the Son of
Man seated at the right hand of the Power, and coming with the clouds
of heaven" (Mark 14:62).

Jesus also fulfilled Old Testament
prophecies of the Messiah: He was born of a virgin, in Bethlehem, in
the line of Abraham and David; He was rejected by His own people; His
hands, feet and side were pierced, but no bones were broken; and He
rose from the dead and ascended into heaven.

Jesus claimed to
have authority to forgive sins. He told the paralyzed man, "But so you
may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins."
He said He was the judge of mankind (John 5:25-29).

Jesus
claimed honor that is only due God (Isaiah 42:8), when He said, "And
now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you
before the world began" (John 17:1) and "Honor the Son, even as they
honor the Father" (John 5:23). Jesus invited prayer in His name: "And I
will do whatever you ask in my name" (John 14:13). He accepted worship
(Matthew 8:2, 14:33, 15:25, 20:20, 28:17), though the Old Testament
clearly forbids the worship of anyone but God (Exodus 20:1-4;
Deuteronomy 5:6-9). Even the angels refused to be worshipped
(Revelation 22:8, 9).

Jesus said He would give us things that
only God can give. "For just as the Father raises the dead and gives
them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it"
(John 5:21).

Jesus told us not just to follow His teaching but also to follow Him (Matthew 10:38).

Jesus
performed many miracles, the greatest being His resurrection, which He
predicted (John 2:19, 21) and was attested to by all four Gospel
writers and, among others, by Paul, who said Jesus was seen by more
than 500 eyewitnesses, most of whom were still alive and could have
contradicted him if untrue (1 Corinthians 15:4).

His Apostles
also claimed that He was God: "In the beginning was the Word and the
Word was with God and the Word was God" (John 1:1); Jesus was the
"first and the last" (Revelation 1:17, 2:8, 22:13); and, "For unto us,
a child is born ... and his name will be called 'Wonderful, counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace" (Matthew 1:23).

Jesus,
who claimed and proved to be God, affirmed the divine authority of the
Old Testament (Matthew 5:17-18) and promised that the Holy Spirit would
inspire the New Testament revelations (John 14:26, 16:13). New
Testament writers also attested that all Scripture is inspired of God
(2 Timothy 3:16).

Once we conclude the Bible is the word of God,
we will delight in the Scriptures (Psalm 119:92) and, as one writer put
it, acquire "that great sense that we are living in the sphere of
eternal security."

Eternal security, indeed, for Christ died so
that by repenting and trusting in Him, we could live. Now that's the
true meaning of Christmas and the best news of all.